Rhythm And Weep

Author : Anthony Marinelli
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493146055

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Rhythm and Weep by Anthony Marinelli Pdf

The late 80s is the time period pictured where a student in the depth studies of psychology/philosophy, invited on a night out by a Hong Kong exchange student learns of the abuse of a young runaway from the small town of Welland Yvonne Levesque. She sought refuge from a mysterious past and abusive situation yet her savior seems more troubled and abusive than her past. T/f is Yvonnes savior and is mired in a troubled past, and a family of abuse as well and their life soon unravels in a strange climax which will leave the reader spellbound to its final mystery. The student at the university, trained interested in psychology philosophy, hears a confession from the Lovely Yvette, a confession of abuse at the hands from him who she sought help and refuge, and soon turns to the friend turned investigator and eventual secret admirer Terryas a last straw for help in the small town of Welland. The sleuthing abilities of the undergraduate Terry seems unrivalled and he soon falls for the young Yvonne, tries to extricate her from the machinations of her husband Tim Fong and his family and social milieux, he enters on the scene and must deal with the skeletons in his past and the shifting mad world of these fellow small town travelers. The story rather than being told from the point of view of time...is brought to vivid life from several vantage points of timemany years later from Toronto where Terry is married and his life fractures and falls apart and loses his familyto Vancouver..Hong Kong...as he tries to piece together the abuse and PICTURE of the young YVONNE...the tale and investigation is not only a help...but to understand her and paint her as she appears in this harrowing tale. The novel is told in the first person by Terry who tries to paint her picture and we must judge for ourselves, through his poems, and coming to terms with his own life and that of his characters, and his search for Yvette, in body and also to grasp her essence, whether he has succeeded. His poems throughout are expressive of his state of mind.

Author : Peter Seely,Gail W. Pieper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786429202

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Stoogeology by Peter Seely,Gail W. Pieper Pdf

In the world of slapstick comedy, few are more beloved than the Three Stooges. Throughout their 190 short films, they consistently delivered physical, verbal and situational comedy in new and creative ways. Following the trio from outer space to ancient Rome, this volume provides an in-depth look at their comedy and its impact on twentieth century art, culture and thought. This analysis reveals new insights into the language, literary structure, politics, race, gender, ethnicity and even psychology of the classic shorts. It discusses the elements of surrealism within the Stooges films, exploring the many ways in which they created their own reality regardless of time and space. The portrayal of women and minorities and the role of the mistake in Stooges' works are also addressed. Moreover, the book examines the impact that the Columbia Studios style and the austerity of its Short Subjects Department had on the work of the Three Stooges, films that ironically have outlasted more costly and celebrated productions.

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Crown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307832047

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The Three Stooges by Michael Fleming Pdf

More people today can name the members of the Three Stooges than can name three justices of the Supreme Court. The Stooges are comedy icons whose enduring appeal and slapstick legacy have made them one of the most famous and beloved comedy troupes in the world. Michael Fleming's The Three StoogesTM is the first complete, authorized biography of the men who made pie fights part of our national cultural heritage. A juggernaut of wise guys, headlocks, and unforgettable insults, this book tells the whole history of the Stooges, starting with their origins in the golden years of vaudeville, when the boys from Brooklyn honed their craft. Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard were born Moses, Jerome, and Samuel Horwitz--and were believed for many years to be the three least accomplished sons of their Lithuanian immigrant parents. Ultimately, of course, the Three Stooges reinvented the rules of slapstick comedy: never be caught unprepared in a pie fight, never slap one wise guy in the face if you can slap three in a row, and never underestimate the value of a good poke in the eye. Signed in 1934 by Columbia Pictures to a renewable contract that had them making at least nine short films a year, the Stooges learned firsthand about the sharks swimming through Hollywood's early waters. And after nearly a quarter century of producing the short films for which the Stooges are so well known and loved, the studio declined to renew their contract in 1954, and the pioneering pie-throwing professionals lost their jobs. Fittingly, though, Moe & Co. were destined to have the last laugh: the advent of television revived their careers after the decline of vaudeville and Hollywood shorts, and a new generation of belly laughs was born. From the Stooges' humble origins to movie stardom to comedy legends, there's something here for every level of fan--from folks who watched them on television as a kid to Stooge scholars and certified "knuckleheads." Featuring over two hundred photographs, many of them rare; interviews with Stooge friends and families; and a complete filmography with every "woob-woob" and crashed society cocktail party lovingly detailed, this book will be treasured by all Stoogedom.

Author : David J. Hogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557839398

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Three Stooges FAQ by David J. Hogan Pdf

THREE STOOGES FAQ:EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE EYE-POKING FACE-SLAPPING HEAD-THUMP

Author : Edwin London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aleatory music
ISBN : UOM:39015025404578

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Dream Thing on Biblical Episodes by Edwin London Pdf

Author : Matthew Bevis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191653032

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry by Matthew Bevis Pdf

'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements—'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides 'Readings' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, 'The Place of Poetry', conceives and explores 'place' in a range of ways in order to situate Victorian poetry within broader contexts and discussions: the places in which poems were encountered; the poetic representation and embodiment of various sites and spaces; the location of the 'Victorian' alongside other territories and nationalities; and debates about the place - and displacement - of poetry in Victorian society. This Handbook is designed to be not only an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics, but also a landmark publication—provocative, seminal volume that will offer a lasting contribution to future studies in the area.

Author : Graham Webb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681184

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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 by Graham Webb Pdf

Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Author : C. Melissa Snarr
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814783894

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All You That Labor by C. Melissa Snarr Pdf

“Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”Mathew 11:28 (AKJV) In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances. Although religious persons and organizations have been important both in the origins of the living wage movement and in its continuing success, they are often ignored or under analyzed. Drawing on participant observation in multiple cities, All You That Labor analyzes and evaluates the contributions of religious activists to the movement. The book explores the ways religious organizations do this work in concert with low-wage workers, the challenges religious activists face, and how people of faith might better nurture moral agency in relation to the political economy. Ultimately, C. Melissa Snarr provides clarity on how to continue to cultivate, renew, and expand religious resources dedicated to the moral agency of low-wage workers and their allies.

Author : Herrman S. Saroni
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781987208481

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Complete Songs, 1844–1889 by Herrman S. Saroni Pdf

This volume includes all of the surviving songs by German-American composer, performer, critic, and businessman Herrman S. Saroni (1823/24–1900), who is now most remembered as the owner and editor of Saroni’s Musical Times (one of America’s first significant music magazines). The entire date range of these songs is 1844–89, but the vast majority appeared in the 1840s and early 1850s. Saroni was among the first composers in America to combine aspects of German lieder and various features associated with popular song, and these works fuse accessibility to amateurs with sophisticated compositional techniques. Despite several indicators of success in his era, Saroni’s songs are almost completely unknown today. These works deserve reconsideration and modern performance both for their historical significance and for their aesthetic value. Most of the songs in this edition were published in Saroni’s lifetime, but an appendix includes a transcription of an unpublished holograph manuscript song, the original of which is also shown in two plate images.

Author : Ed Salamon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738572233

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Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio by Ed Salamon Pdf

Pittsburgh is the birthplace of radio, the location of many of radio's first and most influential stations and broadcast personalities, and a key market for the development of new formats. Pittsburghers' reaction to the music they heard on the radio helped to break records and create stars. Radio provided an unprecedented audience for live performances by local artists. After the big band era, radio gave voice to pop, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio celebrates the city's radio history, deejays, contests, concerts, public service, and promotions from radio's beginnings in the 1920s through the late 1970s, when listening on FM exceeded that on AM for the first time.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199681242

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Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge Pdf

This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualities, its deployment of syntax - to write verse that continues to move and delight.

Author : Darla Marx,Michael Sperandio
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438937052

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Rhythm's Fate by Darla Marx,Michael Sperandio Pdf

'Rhythm's Fate' is the true story of two people's journey into uncharted water's called internet dating. It is the story of a woman who chose a man out of a sea of faces and her unwavering faith as they are tossed into the eye of the storm. What starts out as a simple email turns into a saga of epic proportion. A song writer seducing his prey with written words, Rake Michael consumes Unwavering only to be caught up in the web he has created. Through poetry their tale unfolds as they fight demon's from their past and obsess over the unknown. Their story is of reason and fate. When two people are brought together by more than mere circumstance but by the touch of death as a soul passes into the after life. In the end Jazzman and Dr. D discover they must listen to the rhythm that beats from the heart, when the secret is revealed, when "goodbye is too hard to say."

Author : Ed Pavlić
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823268498

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Who Can Afford to Improvise? by Ed Pavlić Pdf

More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin and their relationship to the lyric tradition in black music, from gospel and blues to jazz and R&B. Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet’s skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? frames a new narrative of James Baldwin’s work and life. The route retraces the full arc of Baldwin’s passage across the pages and stages of his career according to his constant interactions with black musical styles, recordings, and musicians. Presented in three books — or movements — the first listens to Baldwin, in the initial months of his most intense visibility in May 1963 and the publication of The Fire Next Time. It introduces the key terms of his lyrical aesthetic and identifies the shifting contours of Baldwin’s career from his early work as a reviewer for left-leaning journals in the 1940s to his last published and unpublished works from the mid-1980s. Book II listens with Baldwin and ruminates on the recorded performances of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, singers whose message and methods were closely related to his developing world view. It concludes with the first detailed account of “The Hallelujah Chorus,” a performance from July 1, 1973, in which Baldwin shared the stage at Carnegie Hall with Ray Charles. Finally, in Book III, Pavlić reverses our musically inflected reconsideration of Baldwin’s voice, projecting it into the contemporary moment and reading its impact on everything from the music of Amy Winehouse, to the street performances of Turf Feinz, and the fire of racial oppression and militarization against black Americans in the 21st century. Always with an ear close to the music, and avoiding the safe box of celebration, Who Can Afford to Improvise? enables a new kind of “lyrical travel” with the instructive clarity and the open-ended mystery Baldwin’s work invokes into the world.

Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 069104399X

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The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 by Allen Forte Pdf

In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.

Author : Ben Glaser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421439532

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Modernism's Metronome by Ben Glaser Pdf

Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification. In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breaking" of meter and rise of free verse.